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In part 5 of the Survival Guide, Paolo shows the foundation of creating an animation with Blender. With the animation configured and ready he then shows how to render it to a clip that includes an alpha channel and how to import the animation in After Effects.

Paolo gracias for these tutorials of the blender 3d program, they have helped me very well for a begginer like myself and i have to say these are some amazing tutorials theyre so easy for me to catch one really quickly.

These tutorials are great Paolo. I've been doing 2 or 3 a day since I first found them. I had almost lost hope that there was a tutorial out there that was actually for us beginners.

My only question for now is, Is there a way to stop the render process after you've started it? I'm using Windows, and if I click the "X" button to close the render window, it doesn't do anything while it's still rendering, if it's 1 frame or a whole animation. If I forget to do something, I don't want to have to wait a long time for it to finish before being able to change and redo the render.

Again, thanks for these lessons. You really do a good job of helping us understand what we are actually doing when we follow your steps. I've seen other tutorials that just give steps, but don't explain why we are doing those steps. Great work!

This is wonderful, thank you so much for posting these amazing Survival Guides. So very helpful. I was about to uninstall Blender in frustration until I found these tutorials. I can't thank you enough!

The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 1Play VideoBlender 3D Tutorials: The Blender Survival guide, hosted by Paolo Ciccone, is a multi-part tutorial that aims to teach you the necessary skills to get up to speed with Blender in the shortest time possible. All the essential stuff without the 'geeky' parts. Think of it as 'Bear Grylls' for Blender.

The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 2Play VideoBlender 3D Tutorials: In part 2 of the Blender Survival Guide, host Paolo Ciccone shows users how to complete the customization of the Blender desktop and how to save our preferences so that they become the application's default.

The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 3Play VideoBlender 3D Tutorials: In this episode of the Survival Guide, host Paolo Ciccone shares how to create 3D text in Blender. We also discover how to use the 3D cursor, how to move, scale and rotate objects in the 3D space, how to position the camera to frame the shot, how to place lights and finally how to do a quick test render. This is a rich tutorial, filled with essential information and great real-life skills that you can put to work right away.

The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 4Play VideoBlender 3D Tutorials: In Episode 4 of the Blender Survival Guide, host Paolo Ciccone expands on the subject started last week, and works on making the 3D text look better by learning how to use additional fonts, how to create new materials and how to take advantage of optimized Ambient Occlusion. These are all fairly dense topics but, as usual, Paolo gives you the condensed version of them so that you can start appreciating the features without being clobbered by the details.

The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 12Play VideoIn this episode of the Blender Survival Guide Paolo continues the design of a simple scene that will be used to create volumetric lights using LuxRender. In this Video Tutorial you'll see how to add LuxRender to your Blender installation and how to prepare your scene for export by setting the right materials in Blender and Lux.

The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 13Play VideoEpisode 13 of the Blender Survival Guide is the conclusion of the three-part tutorial on how to use Blender in conjunction with the Lux Renderer. This video tutorial shows, in very easy steps, techniques that can take several days to master if attempted without guidance. To make following the steps even easier the .blend file used in the tutorial is included.

The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 11Play VideoThis tutorial takes the opportunity to study how to create Volumetric Lights in Blender and in the process it shows some very useful modeling techniques. You will learn how to carve holes into planes, how to create new edges and faces and how to use the Array modifier to create multiple copies of the same geometry with speed and ease. This is a two-part tutorial.

The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 10Play VideoIn this episode of the Blender Survival Guide we explore in detail how to edit existing keyframes for a simple animation. The video shows how to re-time portions of the animation, how to add hold keyframes, how to create loopable animations, and other tips that, as usual, come in handy in everyday work.

The Blender 3D Survival Guide - Part 9Play VideoIn this episode of the BSG Paolo shows you how to create a simple animation of flying photos in a 3D space. In the process we see how to setup the Blender environment to show the textures of a scene in real-time, how to align new objects to the current view and how to get real-time feedback about the effects of lights in the scene.
The project files for this tutorial are included.